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Someone care to enlighten me on what justifies the editorialized title, other than the fact that in 1940 it must have been assumed by default to be "whites-only
by mikestew 5y ago
Someone care to enlighten me on what justifies the editorialized title, other than the fact that in 1940 it must have been assumed by default to be "whites-only"? Nothing in the first dozen pages jumps out.
EDIT: assuming that the search functionality works, searching on the usual suspect words turns up nothing of relevance, though one hotel apparently advertised that their service staff were comprised of black people, which seems to be an odd thing to advertise even in 1940. Otherwise, just a few uses of an outdated term to describe a college and someone's stories about (or perhaps written by) black people.
- vanusa 5y agoYeah, I couldn't find any explicit support for the claim in the title, either. It's known that the industry as a whole was largely segregated at the time, in that most establishments had some kind of "policy" in regard to admitting non-whites -- state or unstated. To an extent such that there were numerous guides published for Black travelers showing where they could stop for the night, just to stay on the safe side. But still - the title makes a rather bold claim, and I don't see any support for it in the book itself.
- mizzack 5y agoMaybe OP saw "Discriminating Guests" on page 6 and jumped to conclusions...